http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/On the issue of abortion, we will make more progress if we saw the issue more broadly as the right of fathers and mothers. Let me explain: Abortion debates must be taken out of the hands of politicians and TAKEN INTO THE BEDROOM. Potential fathers and mothers need to make this decision together in the bedroom, where the "issue" originated. Both sides have a say about the future issue. If these couples are left to make their decision, with input from physicians when needed, we will reach the usual consensus, the usual reasonable solution. Like all rights, this is an issue crying out for balance, because I would feel sorely excluded after a woman uses my body and bodily fluids and then say the "issue" is only about her body, and her rights. We are generally in agreement that not every preganancy is desirable; but don't exclude the potential fathers from the final decision. This is the way to avoid the extremes that fanatics present for us. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/134532THIS IS FOR ME: Writing is a haven A mode of self-instruction I brandish my pen No weapon of mass destruction Do not, therefore, silence me When I express my life's instruction I do not revile the presidency When it digresses from our Constitution I will write what happens to me You may write...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/132117I have always believed that many problesm in the world, especially between men and women, are a matter of balancing a new lifestyle with new responsibilities. Do not look to any one country to show you what your rights ought to be. Only you can free yourself at home, in your country, while...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/131781In keeping with the post below, it is NOT surprising that the Hindu majority of India are practical people. And generous too. America has no idea how to run massive elections if you think about this feat of India's elections just concluded in May 2004. The world's largest democracy - alleged...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/131133UNEVEN progress for Women's Equality across the nations, including the "THIRD" world. I read once that in the 1960s, Argentina, had more women professionals (including dentists, doctors, lawyers and professors) than the USA! I guess that number was proportionate to total population. The point was...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/130373Can Fathers be motherly? One man wrote: "So now, with respect to all in the family here, I see a new generation raised on convenience food. They don't know the pleasure of kneading dough or sitting on the patio in early July pitting just-picked cherries for freezing and cherry pies until the next...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/128457VOTE for free expression in the bedroom, in X-rated movie houses, and for women's bodies (incl.Janet Jackson) ASS or AssETS? If nudity satisfies and helps CHASTITY, bring it on! One can admire, without having to possess! Thanks to American movies, the Oscars etc., we mostly catch a man or women...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/127630I read once that in the 1960s, Argentina, had more women professionals (including dentists, doctors, lawyers and professors) than the USA! I guess that number was proportionate to total population. The point was made, all the same. I think most rights and social gains are a delicate balancing act,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/125321REFRAIN OF PAIN I would love all poetry to be Of the nature of joy, bouncy... Today the refrain is of pain As I turn to my pen again I grow old, my daughters grow old Goodness is not dead, I am told Alone among new immigrants I come without a language, chants Mixed colonial economies Took us to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Deonils9673/123490Viva Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and all warriors for Equality.